Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Jakarta Method
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- Author
- Vincent Bevins
- Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 320
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Bevins traces the 1965 Indonesian mass killings and the way that template was exported — the Cold War’s least-discussed body count and its effect on the present political map.
Where I saw it: Shown on the power-empire-and-guns shelf in the Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach store account’s BookTok video (@bnhuntingtonbeach) — “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok” — saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@bnhuntingtonbeach/video/7461057163067165982
Connections
- Foreign Policy — the subject.
- Historical Futurism — reading the present out of this history.